Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus: Post-Soviet Disorder

by Moshe Gammer (Editor)

With the region of the Caucasus with its ongoing, and even deteriorating, crisis and instability and its strategic and economic importance increasingly at the front of the world's attention, this volume presents and discusses some of the complexities and problems arising in the region such as Islamic terrorists and al-Qaida. Scholars from different disciplines who specialise in the Caucasus analyze key topics such With the situation in Chechnia likely to spread across the entire North Caucasus, this cutting edge work will be of great value in the near future and will interest political scientists and regional experts of Russia, Central Asia, Caucasus, Middle East and Turkey, as well as NGOs, government agencies and think tanks.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published December 11, 2007

Reviews

[Kw Estes · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent collection of writings on the North Caucasus region after the Soviet collapse. It was refreshing to read Russian, rather than American, perspectives on the region, as they evinced more nuance than those of the latter. Still, unless one is quite interested by the goings-on of this historically salient region, what is presented in this collection will seem to be somewhat bland minutiae.